Saturday, February 27, 2016

AE 283, 286 - "I spread My wing over thee", the Lord's care & protection

AE 283 [7]
When I passed by thee,
and saw thee,
that behold thy time was the time of loves,
I spread My wing over thee,
and I covered thy nakedness.
(Ezekial 16:8)

Here Jerusalem is treated of,
and by it the church is meant, here its reformation;
"the time of loves" 

signifies the state when it could be reformed;
"I spread My wing over thee"
signifies spiritual truth by which reformation is effected;
"I covered thy nakedness"
signifies putting evil out of sight thereby;
for the evil that man has by heredity
and afterwards from what is his own [ex proprio]
is put out of sight, that is, so removed as not to appear,
by spiritual truths,
which are truths from good. 

AE 283 [13]
"God Shaddai"
means truth rebuking in temptations,
and afterwards consoling . . ..

AE 286
Lord God Almighty,
who was, and who is, and who is to come,

(Revelation 4:8)

signifies the infinite and eternal.
This is evident from the signification of "Almighty"
as being that He is the infinite,
and from the signification of
"who was, who is, and who is to come,"
as being that He is the eternal.
There are two things
that can be predicated only of Jehovah,
that is, the Lord, namely, infinity and eternity;
infinity of His esse,
which is the Divine good of His Divine love;
eternity of His existere from that esse,
which is the Divine truth of His Divine wisdom.
These two are Divine in themselves.
Out of these the universe was created;
consequently all things in the universe
are referable to good and to truth,
and good everywhere is the esse of a thing,
and truth is the existere therefrom;
but these two in all things of the universe are finite.
It is therefore here said "Lord God,"
for "Lord" signifies the Divine good of the Divine love,
and "God" the Divine truth of the Divine wisdom.



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